A Florida woman who arranged a hit on her lover's former brother-in-law has been jailed for life without parole. Katherine D. Magbanua, 37, was handed a stiff sentence after she was convicted of arranging the execution of FSU law professor Daniel Markel in Tallahassee in July 2014. Magbanua is said to have done so at the behest of her dentist lover, Charles Adelson. Adelson's sister Wendi had been married to Markel. The hit on Markel is said to have been taken out so Wendi could gain full custody of their two children. They divorced acrimoniously in 2013, the year before Markel's murder, and were ordered to share custody jointly. Charles Adelson faces first-degree murder and conspiracy charges over the hit on his ex-brother-in-law. Markel was killed by Sigfredo Garcia, an ex of Magbanua's, and the father of her children. Garcia's friend Luis Rivera also took part in the hit. Neither man knew Markel, and both have since been jailed for his murder. Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel was gunned down at his Tallahassee home on July 18, 2014. He had gone through a contentious divorce with Adelson's sister Markel was gunned down in his garage by two men, Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera, whom prosecutors say Adelson hired through Magbanua, the former girlfriend and employee of Adelson, and the mother of Garcia's two children. Garcia is serving a life sentence after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2019. Rivera is serving a 19-year sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in exchange for testifying against Garcia and Magbanua. Magbanua's first trial in 2019 concluded with a hung jury. But at her retrial in May, a jury of 12 peers unanimously found her guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation. #KatherineMagbanua #murderforhire #CharlieAdelson SUPPORT MY WORK Buy Me a Coffee ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/deeptrue... ☕ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA www.twitter.com/deeptruecrime www.facebook.com/deeptruecrime www.tiktok.com/@deeptruecrime www.instagram.com/deeptruecrime Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research.
